August 10, 2018

Much remains TBD regarding the future of sports betting, which was made legal in several states earlier this year with a Supreme Court ruling, but one thing that has changed: the National Basketball Association has decided to find a way to play ball. Speaking at the Albany Law School's Saratoga Institute on Equine Racing and […]

Returning from a 4 ½-month layoff, Margoth's Gunnevera scored by 6 ½ lengths in Friday's featured fourth race at Gulfstream, showing he hasn't lost a step after recovering from a hoof injury. The multiple grades-stakes winner hadn't seen action since exiting an eighth-place finish in the $10 million Dubai World Cup (G1) March 31 with a nasty hoof injury. […]

Judge Timothy M. Casserly awarded a stay of his 10-day suspension to apprentice jockey Assael Espinoza in San Diego County Superior Court on Thursday, according to agent Brian Beach. The suspension was originally handed down by stewards for an incident in which Espinoza caused interference in Saturday's final race at Del Mar; jockeys Corey Nakatani […]

Trainer Todd Pletcher will send a pair of debut winners into their first stakes start Aug. 12, as Meade and Spinoff comprise one-third of a six-horse field of juveniles in the $200,000 Saratoga Special Stakes presented by Miller Lite (G2).

Tattersalls Ireland and Goresbridge Horse Sales are to join forces in staging Ireland's only breeze-up sale next year, to build on progress made by Goresbridge in establishing the sale as a key date in the European breeze-up calendar.